Health insurance only works when you’re healthy
Moving to the USA could be the Most Expensive Mistake of your Life
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Wudi@feddit.uk to videos@lemmy.world
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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
limer@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s not called “sick insurance” for a reason
RedStamp@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The taxation part of this is a bit of an unfair point. The US allows for an exclusion of ~$150k in foreign earned income if the US citizen qualifies as a bonafide resident of a foreign nation. On top of that, the IRS lets you deduct any taxes paid to a foreign government dollar for dollar against owed US taxes, and since most other developed nations have a higher tax rate, this essentially wipes out your US tax obligations (federal only, some states will still apply taxes separately). The only people actually double paying taxes are the ultra rich, but they obviously don’t pay taxes at all since that’s for the poors
Obviously, the system is still stupid and overly complicated (why should I even file a return with the IRS when I don’t owe anything?), but it’s not as egregious as this video makes it out to be
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
How can states claim foreign residents’ tax income? Don’t most of the tax provisions require you to actually reside in that state?
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
most developed nations do not have higher tax rates
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I mean, just don’t pay taxes to the US. You’re not going to get extradited. The IRS is just as defunded as everything else outside of the war economy. Also, if you’re in Europe, there’s no reason to travel anywhere they may be able to get hands on you. Keep your money inside of the Schengen Area and you’re fine.
Atleast that’s how it’s been working for me in Portugal. Renounced in 2016
yakko@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Nice
Folstar@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Missing in this, both for being broke and the diabetes, is car monoculture. I’ve known several immigrants who thought they were going to get around (in Texas no less!) without a car or be a one car household. A few months later they were all angry at how much they were spending on cars. And fatter, angrier from traffic.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Good god, Texas of all places? It’s a 15 minute drive to the nearest grocery store and I live in a suburb close to the city!
Cease@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Why are we reposting shorts from an Afd idiot
eleijeep@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
source?
Cease@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
You can go to his yt channel, he has this big video about why he’s leaving Germany because of all the poor oppressed rich people, and how “”“some political parties”“” are unjustly treated and censured because they want to get back to the root of the problem etc etc
Actionschnils@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Who is the person from the video? I dont know him?
Cease@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
How hard is it to look up “German shorts guy” I didn’t remember what the guy’s name was and it took me less than a minute. anyway…
Comet79@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Spiritually Russian guy tells us not to move to the US. Yeah, I’ll pass.
tomiant@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I heard they get indebted for life for like small medical issues, and their society is all stratified, uneducated, straight up dumb, their infrastructure is crumbling, their rivers are on fire, everybody shoots everyone at all times, they’ve been usurped by a fat pedophile, and they terrorize the rest of the planet with their stank.
But I really want to take my kids to Disneyland so I bought the century pass, which guarantees that my grandchildren will be able to visit the ruins after the nuclear apocalypse with a max 2 hour queue limit!!!
Sabata11792@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Hey, our rivers are not on fire, as far as I know, at this moment.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
not the ones near me. everything else checks out. also you have to be like a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, a handyman, etc. outside of your own job because you can’t afford to use professionals and everything is setup for you to do it. At your job you will be berated for wasting to much time with customer issues while workmates you just sorta ghost them so they do it themselves will be praised.
tomiant@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Nature is healing!
gedfromgont@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
A German getting an American passport. Wow.
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Least believable part of this skit.
FatVegan@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Isn’t he an afd guy? So i guess it makes sense that he wants to live in naziburger land
AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Now both left and right are trying to discourage immigration.
tomiant@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Verrrrry different reasons tho. Intentions matter.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Welcome to America, where you are free to fuck off and die - here’s your bill.
FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Plot twist: he got shot dead at day 2
Wataba@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well yeah, it could cost you your life in a myriad of ways.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Well, at least the American taxman accepted Euros.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
M4A would cost as much as Medicare and Medicaid does right now
kokesh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And you would have to be mentally ill to move there.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Virtually every immigrant I know who’s still in love with this country is much older and came over here when it was still seen as a beacon of light for those in less stable countries.
They also hate all other immigrants and believe they’re superior to them in every way, even if they themselves were undocumented at one point.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
The only foreigner I know who still wants to move to the US is a Pole living in Sweden on a work visa so I think there’s just something fundamentally wrong with him.
Folstar@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Living in the past? Hating people just like them? Immigrants really can assimilate!
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
chauvinism